What did you do at your reloading bench today?

[DsGrouse]

I worked up two loads of 6.5x55 140grain subsonics.

One using the new remington 140 accutip and one using sierr bthp.

What powder you trying?

RP

Bullseye, 8.5 grains for the sierra put 1st round at 1060, 2nd at 1100ish.

9.5grains for remmington. Puts first round at 990, and second round at 1070.

Oddly, those numbers are similar whether i use my m38 or my cz557

The next goal is to load both to 1600fps, but I need more modeling data to do that.

[The Happy Kaboomer]

Nothing.......Did buy a 4 pk of 20 ga 7 1/2's.

[Rifletom]

After walking the Granddogs, I'll be working on some 7x57 Mauser loads to try out early next week in the desert. Been a while for this one.

[DsGrouse]

308 subsonics using titegroup.
168 nosler,
175 seirra,
190 sub x,
200grn speer,
208grn hornaday bthp

[NHshtr]

My deer season is done, So back to the bench. Today, I've loaded 20 243 Win using 85 grain Speer and 35.5 gr. of Varget. I've been using H4831SC with that bullet in my Long Ranger and doing OK with 1.5" to 2.0" or so groups, but the grouping was inconsistent load to load. I wanted to see if I could improve on that.

Meanwhile I inherited some reloading components some years ago from a friend who passed away, He had about 60 Nosler .270 Silver Tips at 130 grain. So this year, I used them to develop a nice load for my 270 WSM using H4350 and a non-magnum primer. 1-inch groups at 100 and very consistent. I used that load to take four deer this year down in NC. All about 160 to 180 yds and no need to go looking for them. Those bullets are basically regular Nosler BTs with a coating of Lubalox and a silver colored tip. They're great performers. And after shooting almost all of them, my borescope showed no copper.
Nosler hasn't made a new run of those for months, but I'm keeping watch. Meanwhile the regular BTs are available.

[The Happy Kaboomer]

nothing..........

[Hatchdog]

Yesterday I pulled the bullets from a couple of dozen 327 fed mags. I’m changing up the powder type and these were left over test loads with various powders. Interesting I couldn’t find a bullet puller collet in the .312 diameter needed. I contacted RCBS tech line and got an immediate response telling me they didn’t have a .312 collet available but suggested I give the 32/8mm size a try. Since I already had one on hand I first tried a .308 collet and while it did pull the bullet it scored it pretty bad and I wanted to reuse them. Found a 32 collet at Sportsman’s Warehouse on clearance sale and it worked perfectly.

Also I wanted to check the trigger on my Ruger 10/22 LVT. Some seem to come with the improved BX 25 trigger and some seem to not have the better trigger. Based on the trigger pull I figured that mine was not the BX. So I pulled it out and sure enough based on very limited information from Ruger with a side by side pic of the two mine is not the BX.

[Bill.68]

One of my least favorite jobs, in truth I absolutely despise it, prepping LC 5.56 cases, about 1k of them at that.
LC is the only brass Ill reload and since there is no shortage of it iys easily collected at the range.
When I say prep I mean prep. I start with cleaning. Dont have a wet tumbler so I soak in scalding hot water with Lemishine, sea salt and some dish liquid. Rinse, dry. Anneal. Resize and deprime. Measure and trim all to hopefully to the same 1.755" and chamfer and deburr. Swage primer pockets. And finally do the primer pockets and flash holes. Done.
This is not a fun operation, at all, but loadung and shooting tiny little groups is so I do it anyway.

[DsGrouse]

I loaded a few rounds. shot them at 120 yards and determined that I suck.

[Hatchdog]

I loaded a few rounds. shot them at 120 yards and determined that I suck.

Probably not.